15 Harrowing Minutes and a Suspect Is Caught

GG was listening to an episode of Call the Midwife. Nick, her partner, was snoozing off. There’s always a lot noise at their northern Mission Street locale, but at 11:30 on Saturday night, it sounded a lot closer than usual.

It was. By the end of 15 harrowing minutes, police were taking away a burglary suspect and GG and Nick were just grateful that no one was hurt. But it was a narrow escape—for them as well as their neighbors.

GG and Nick were only two of the people in their three-story, six-unit building to be hit by a crime wave that night.

Earlier in the evening one of them shooed a burglar away, said GG, who spoke of condition that we not use her full name. But for reasons that are unclear did not call the police. A second neighbor had also been burglarized earlier in the evening.

At first GG, her headphones blocking it, actually didn’t hear any noise at all. READ THE FULL STORY